If you’re a big privacy fan and think the idea of actually saving your web search history is an anathema to your life style, then you may want to consider Ask.com’s Eraser:

AskEraser is a new privacy feature on the Ask site that provides searchers with unprecedented control over their search activity data. You can turn on AskEraser at any time and start searching Ask.com with the confidence that your search activity data will be completely deleted from Ask.com servers within a number of hours.

Since initially announcing the project earlier this year, we’ve been working hard to make sure that AskEraser hits on all key pieces of user data across all our servers and most importantly, is drop-dead simple for our users. We think we’ve come up with a clean and simple approach that truly puts the power in the hands of all users.

It’s a great feature that goes well for what I’d like out of my search engines personally, but then again, when I can still use the best search engine out there (Google), even though it’s still awful, with such programs as Stealther and AdBlockPlus, all in an effort to keep my data private, why would I use an inferior search engine?

That’s why I essentially disagree with Mr. Google Search Sucks’s opinion:

If you want to keep your information safe then I strongly recommend you start using Ask. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are not currently allowing for this feature. Lets see how quickly they will follow suit.

No, I think I will just find an add-on from other users who know what search engine is best and just protect my data instead. Yes, it’s a little more time-consuming on having to actually get off my butt to find a tool that does this, but I think very long-term, and long-term wise, I’d rather find what I’m looking for while protecting my data.